Project on Children's Thinking at Northwestern University

We study the development of children's thought and language. You and your child are invited to participate in one of our research studies!

The Project on Children's Thinking, headed by Drs. Dedre Gentner and David Uttal, studies the development of children's thought and language. We study how children come to know about the world, with a focus on how their growing insight into linguistic and conceptual structures influences their patterns of learning and reasoning. One major focus of our research is how children come to learn about s  ...